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Freaky Friday: Bagel Heads, Ghosts, Attack Owls
It’s been a bit of an odd Friday around here. For example, I was trapped at a work-related event for a large portion of the afternoon and when I returned to my own floor at around 2:30, no one was around. It was actually pretty creepy. Just empty chairs in every office and cube. Even…
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It’s a Pork-Tastrophe in the Making! A-PORK-alypse!
Everybody stay calm. We’re aware of this latest crisis and we’re planning Porktober accordingly. As you may have heard, The U.K.’s National Pig Association, an esteemed organization if ever there was one, is predicting a pork shortage in 2013. The U.K.’s National Pig Association said the European Union’s pig herd is declining significantly as pig…
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The Gas Man Cometh (and Yet, We Still Have No Working Stove)
This weekend was a weekend of promise. The promise of a completion of our sweet abode. The weekend where everything remaining on the new homestead punch list was going to be checked off with a satisfying finality. Alas, when homeowners make plans, the Contractor Gods laugh. There wasn’t much left, really. We needed speakers installed,…
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I Hear the Dengue Fever is Hot for Spring 2013
Like K-Stew and R-Patt’s relationship, bubonic plague is back y’all! *Can we please take a moment to thank the US Weekly editor/gods that we’ve all made it past that time of national crisis? I’m talking about the Twi-Breakup, obviously. Not the bubonic plague. That appears to be here to stay. Like Lindsay Lohan and drunk…
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You Give Us a Bad Parking Ticket….Can I Give You a Bad Bureaucracy Ticket?
The Erin Brockovich of Old Town took on the law last week, emerging mildly victorious (I say “mildly” victorious because justice wasn’t entirely served in XFE’s efforts to fight a totally and completely unjustified and blatantly erroneous ticket.) Let’s jump back into the rewind time machine: It was early July. We were in Costa Rica…
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Beavers, Preppers and Chelsea Handler
Oh crap. The beavers are at it again. From the Washington Post: The beaver leapt out of the water and onto the dock and was seen acting aggressively and chasing the children, police said. An animal control officer responded to the scene, cleared the area and shot the beaver, police said. Leapt out of the…
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Rufus’s Tower
I know I promised no more cat posts, but I feel like the timing of this little video below was designed to turn me into a blubbering puddle of a mess. First, some background, via the Los Angeles Times: In the beginning of the video, Australian commercial and music video director Billy Browne explains that…
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Weekend Gorging: When Petunia Wasn’t Looking
In between attempts to feed much-needed medicine to wiggly fur face residents, we celebrated the gift of life that is our cat by eating lots of good things, including these guys. When your personal chef for life wakes up on a Saturday morning and declares (while cleaning out the magazine holder stuffed with six months…
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Let’s Play a Little Game of Outwit the Cat (She’s Winning)
I (tentatively) promise that this will be the last cat-drama update. In fact, I’m working on a post for tomorrow and it has absolutely nothing to do with sick cats at all. When last we left this little saga, Petunia was using her litter box as a place to be alone with her very deep…
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Honestly, I Blame Birds for This Particular Poe-Tastrophe
Well helllllllooo, kitty cats (man, I miss me some Brandi Glanville. Hopefully those BV ladies will be back on Bravo soon). Let’s jump right back into this blogging thing, shall we? Should we start with a sad little story of a not-at-all young girl and her lost keys? Well, technically, they were not lost, per…